Vicious | 
Been struggling to find a book that hooks me lately, but excited to give this one a try. It's been on my TBR for a while!
panI think this can be summed up in one simple line from the book. “There are no good guys here.“
Unfortunately, as it would be none of the characters really stand out. There isn't a ton of depth to any one of them which made the book way to easy to predict. No one cares about anyone else but themselves and what they have going on. This means the backstabbing and fighting is easy to predict. Which makes this lackluster at best.
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#LetterV
I was surprised at how few books I have read that start with the letter "V". Of those, most begin with the word Vampire! ? What does that say!?!
Anyway, my favorite is Vicious by Victoria Schwab
Yay! Reading to stay awake during late night feeds for a new baby gave me a great advantage for this years challenge lol
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pickI loved this - definitely my favorite V.E. Schwab novel to date. I've sometimes felt like her writing style just didn't speak to me, as others seem to rave about her books and I liked them but have never been blown away. This had just the right blend of a morally ambiguous anti-hero who thinks he's the villain, a villain who thinks he's a hero, mixed with the loveable side characters and the promise of more to come.
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My extremely late (again!) March reading wrap up.
This month I also read Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte and With the Fire on High by Elizabeth Acevedo
Books read: 📖 📖 📖 📖 📖 📖
Rating: ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️
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pickI really, really enjoyed this book. V. E. Schwab is moving quickly up my ranks of favorite authors! #bookjournal
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pickI have been wanting to read this book for a while and will say that I‘m far from disappointed. I loved this book as much as I have almost all of Schwab‘s other works and though none of the characters are your stereotypical heroes, I found myself rooting for them. I absolutely loved this book and very much enjoyed the tense buildup and of course, the epic ending.
4⭐️
She‘d told her to go somewhere safe. And over the course of the last week, safe had ceased to be a place for Sydney, and had become a person.
Specifically, safe had become Victor.
“You think I‘m somehow wrong. Broken.”
“I think we‘re all broken,” said Serena.
There were some people you had to stay away from, people who poisoned everything within reach. Then there were people you wanted to stick with, the ones with silver tongues and golden touches. And then, there were people you stood beside, because it meant you weren‘t in their way.
He lifted his glass. “To never dying.”
Eli lifted his. “To being remembered.”
Their glasses clinked as Eli added, “Forever.”
Plenty of humans were monstrous, and plenty of monsters knew how to play at being human.
“Midnight? As in tonight?”
Victor checked his watch. It was already four. “Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.”
“I get the feeling that‘s not what Thomas Jefferson meant,” muttered Mitch.
“You‘re the hero…,” she said, finding his eyes, “…of your own story, anyway.”
pickI love this so much!
The writing, the story, the characters. Chef's kiss.
Will read again and again and again...
Starting part 2 today!
This photo was from my 2nd read-through (25 May 2014).
If Eli really was a hero, and Victor meant to stop him, did that make him a villain?
He took a long sip of his drink, tipped his head back against the couch, and decided he could live with that.
The moments that define lives aren‘t always obvious. They don‘t always scream LEDGE, and nine times out of ten there‘s no rope to duck under, no line to cross, no blood pact, no official letter on fancy paper. They aren‘t always protracted, heavy with meaning. Between one sip and the next, Victor made the biggest mistake of his life, and it was made of nothing more than one line. Three small words.
“I‘ll go first.”
“Hell, we could be heroes.”
“We could be dead,” said Eli.
“That‘s a risk everyone takes by living.”
“I don‘t think you‘re a bad person, Victor.”
Victor kept digging. “It‘s all a matter of perspective.”
Be lost. Give up. give In. in the end It would be better to surrender before you begin. be lost. Be lost And then you will not care if you are ever found.
I first read Vicious in October 2013 (on Kobo).
7 months later, I got the paperback and reread it.
Now with this recently bought box set, I'm reading it again so I can finally read Vengeful.
Can you tell it's a favorite? 😆
pickTruly enjoyed this one. She‘s a great writer and I‘m looking forward to reading more of her backlist. She‘s unique in how she crafts characters and storylines. #readingchallenge2022
pick"Plenty of humans were monstrous, and plenty of monsters knew how to play at being human."
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Happy #jolabokaflodswap day! Thank you so much @Librarybelle for Vicious and my favorite Dove chocolates. I'm obsessed with all things VE Schwab currently!
Thank you to @MaleficentBookDragon for hosting this amazing simple swap once again!
pick4⭐️ I enjoyed this book so much. I loved the pacing and the characters and was sucked in from the first chapter. Curious to see where the next book in the series goes.
so-soVicious is a great title for this book bc it truly is. Vicious. Killing, knifing, slashing, death & dying, reanimating with unique special powers, then more killing, knifing etc etc. It does not have the poetic prose and panache of some of Schwab‘s other novels. Just a so-so for me
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